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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-12-04

13 hubO corrida de tOrOs, & benefi
clio de la Sociedad de obreros e
Gran Pensamiento, = el primer tore
llamado Psluquero, cogi6 al espads
Frascuelo, meri6ndole ell cuerno po
ell vientre, y rompi6ndole dos cos
tillas; ell diestro, valeroso com.
pocos hombres, retro ell asta dc
cuerpo, y hundi6 ell acero en- ell d.
Ia res, que cay6 muerta; en- brazo'
tuvieron que llevar a la enferme
ria al simpatico matador, y despue.
q su casa, seguido de un public,
numeroso. Ell suceso era lamenta
BILE, nadie puede negarlo.
Felizmente, ell estado del diestr.
mejora, y va dice su medico que er
verano volvera a torear.
Todavia no Sc ha leido en-. Con.
seio ell borrador del Mensaje. :Se
cree que mientras en- el Senado sc
discuta ell discurso de la Corona, ~
ocuparan en- ell Oongreso en- algd,,
proyecto de ley de los presentados,
v luego iran 4 la Alta Oamara el
Jurado = el O6digo Civil.
Sc ha ofrecido la embsjada de-
Roma al Duque de Te5uan, que
se cree no esta dispuesto q aceptar
Ia; Sc desigEa para Ia presiden-
cia del Oonsejo de Estado & don
Venancio Gonzalez, y para Ia di-
recci6n del Banco Hipotecario q
don Pho Gull6n; para las plazas
vacantes de Senadores vitalicios,
a los "sehores Tassara, Leon y Gas
tillo, Alfonso Martinez y Pieltain ;
y seran declarados cesantes 6 jubi-
lados, para contenrar a amigos de
Ia situaci6n, nueve consejeros de
Estado, entire los que figoran San
ia Cruz de Aguirre, Guerola, Oar
denas y los distinguidos escritores
Rodriguez Rubi, Oampoamor, Ois-
neros Y Dacarrete. Martinez de
Oampos, Vega dc ArmUo, Monte
70 Rios y Romero Gir6n no ocultan
su descontento, y no s6 como Sc
las compondra Sagasta para atraer-
los.
Volvi6 Romero Robledo de Bar
celoua, triunfante, seg1n 81, Y ali
caido, segdn las noticias que de
ALA vinieron no le bast6 declarar
que era 4.it cdCatLn Nt6s. uues ans
paisanOs- SOi disGnts le hicieron
una mueea al oir 50 fsase aigni6ea.
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The Cherokee Indian.

There is not a Jail anywhere within the
bounds of the Cherokee reservation. No
country can ever be at high point Of
civilization in which there are no jails
and nobody does anything to need them.
We have always been taught to look on
Damon and Pythias as one of the most
beautiful stories of friendship and honor.
Listen to this from the Cherokee Indian
and ask yourself if it does not give you
some different opinion of him. An In
dian was shot for killing another man
some time ago. A stranger in the terri
tory happened to be with the Sheriff
when the news that the appeal had been
lost and the sentence must be carried out
eyes" said the Sheriff, '1'll have to
have the poor fellow shot"
"Where is he2 I don't see any jail"
"He's at home.
"a prisoner under sentence of death at
home!"
Certainly; he's out on his word. Hes
been at home three months. We've got
SWell, you don't expect him to come
and be shot2"
"Certainly I do. He'll be here to-
morrow. I sent for him."
And the merry stranger laug he'd: Next
day he was on hand to witness the sherift's
discontinue. But few minutes before
the hour cavalcade appeared in the dis
tance. 1t was headed by manly young
Indian and it was made up of his friends.
They rode gallantly up, and the young
Indian surrendered himself up to the
sheriff. He went about among the crowd,
shook hands with everybody, gave one
his saddle, another his horse, and so on,
until he had disposed of all he possessed.
Then he selected his bosom friend as the
man to fire the fatal shot, an honor his
bosom friend esteemed highly. He took
his place, pinned piece of blue ribbon
over his heart, the point the bullet was
to take, and stood up like man. A few
seconds, there was shot, and he was
dead. wonder if there is nothing at
all the white man can learn from the
Cherokee Indian.-San Francisco Chron-
5rJe
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ing that when Henry Ward Beecher goes out
of this life it will leave vast vacuum in
this city and in the land. For eighteen
years we have been friendly neighbors. Six
weeks after my arrival in this city as pas
tor, in giving out notice in his own church,
he went clear out Of bis way to give me a
happiness of my ministry in this city.
On the day in which the church was
dedicated to the service Of Almighty
God he fastened from his own church doors
to join in the dedicatory service, and you re-
member what words Of hope He uttered on
that occasion. Autumn before last you re-
member, he presided at the reception given
me on my return from Europe, and
tered then. Only two or three weeks ago he
was present on festal occasion at my house,
and his departure from life is to me persona,
bereavement. he was the friend Of the slayel
the friend Of the outcast, the friend OF the
laboring man, the friend Of the capitalist, the
friend Of the friendless, the friend OF all
1t would be hardly mercifu Tor US
tention here since physicians say that If he
remains on earth it will be with destroyed
intellect, and Henry Ward Beecher without
genius, without wit, without briliancy, with
out geniality, and without eloquence would
DO a stranger to us all So have two
wishes: The one that he may have peace
full departure into the good land which
God has provided for all who love Him,
where there are no tears, and there shall be
no partings, and there can be no death. And
NV other wish is that upon his family and
upon his church there may come the comfort
ing, almighty grace Of God. So grand march
and dirge mingle to-day, gladness and grief,
congratulation and deep sympathy.
'iIn this dark world Of sin and pain,
We only meet to part again;
But when we reach the heavenly shore
We there shall meet to part no more.
The hope that we shall see that day
Should chase our present griefs away"
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A Cure for Kicking Cows.

Tie the COW by the head. using q stout
halter with a ring under the chin. Get
squarely behind her-she cannot kick you
then-and fasten a stout cord to the
pastern of each hind foot. Run these
cords forward through the halter ring,
and back, convenient to your hand when
milking. When the cow lifts foot to
kick, pull the cord, thus drawing the foot
towards the jaw, and throwing her off her
feet. When she gets up and attempts to
kick again, repeat the pulling. Treat her
kindly, but whenever she lifts foot to
kick, jerk the cord with all your might.
Stout, wild heifcrs, that had never been
fed before, or had mans hand on them,
except when they were branded were in
this way broken in an hour, and never at
tempted to kick afterward.-America1'
d0ricuturist.
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The Heel Fly.

Mr. ]. T. Hill, of Red Fork, Indian
T., one of the oldest cattle shippers in
the country, speaking of the heel fly and
the way it affects cattle, said to st.
Louis Globe Democrat reporter: "Ihe
heel fly is an insect closely resembling the
yellow horsefy in everything except color,
the former insect being black. They
sometimes appear in great swarms among
the herds, and sting the cattle in the leg
or heel, depositing eggs under the skin;
This would seem a small matter, but it
sets the cattle perfectly wild, and it is
impossible to hold herd when this fly IS
about. They rush around as if mad under
the intolerable torture, and I have seen
them spring over forty foot bank in
order to get into muddy water, which
seems to be the only thing that can give
them relief. They lose flesh rapidly when
the fy is bad, and readily succumb to
the slightest indisposition. This fly is
pest for which there seems to be no
remedy"
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Alcohol In The Kitchen.

I am not sure but every crusade against
strong drink in the house should begin
in the kitchen, and end in the drawing
room. At any rate, when you consider
the subject culinarily, you reach, by
consent, vital point in your treatment
of the whole question. What men eat
has a great deal to do with what they
drink. More than this, their eating may
be such as to directly create and cultivate
the habit of drinking intoxicating liquors.
It is plain that if the fumes and taste of
alcohol are regularly, or even frequently,
recognized in the food of the people, the
desire to take it " straight" as the topers
have it. will be perfectly natural and un-
avoidable. Plain, simple, nutritious
cookery will never create or foster an
appetite for strong drink. Mixing pud-
dings and pastry, and the variety of
dishes which might be recounted, with
alcoholic fluids, certainly will.-James
H RellO1q.
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Farm and Garden Notes.

Leave plenty of potato to your potato
eye if you want strong plants.
A good kitchen garden saves many
dollars in the way of food and doctors
bills.
To properly keep straw and hay in
stacks, the stacks must be so constructed
as to shed water.
Oats and corn mixed in equal weight
make good ration for fattening, espe-
cially in young sheep.
Whenever the wheat fields and pastures
are thrown up by the frost it is best to
run roller over the crop.
When the pigs are coughing it indi.
Gates not only damp yards, but also that
the roof of the shelter leaks.
Scatter some of the finest, richest and
best manure you have on the piece OF
ground intended for your onions.
A liberal use of manure and good at
tention will give all the vegetables one
can use from small piece of ground.
If you have not secured your garden
seeds. do so at once. The selections
should all be made during the winter
season.
1t has been suggested that farm horses
be sold by weight, in addition to othel
qualities, so as to induce farmers to raist
larger and better horses.
There is no one thing in farm improve
ment eliciting more attention than drain
age, and there is perhaps no one operation
of superior consequence.
During rainy days, at this season, Valu
able work can be done at the farm Il
cleaning out stables, COW lots and hog
pens, and hauling fresh litter.
Select corn and other seeds, put then
one side, and be careful to have doubl
supply in case of accidents and to hell
some less provident neighbors.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.

The Song Of the Plough.
Round the rough hill, lad,
Over ridge and rut,
Keen, lad, and clean, lad,
Let the bright share cut,
With a strong team, and steady,
To work soon and late,
And firm hands, and ready,
To keep the furrow straight.
Up with weed and thorn, lad;
Kill them from the root;
Foes, lad, are these, lad,
That choke the struggling shoot.
That were rare matter
For folks jeers and scorns
Should the sower scatter
His seed among thorns.
Break the hard crust, lad
Sun and rain and dew
Must glow, lad, and flow. lad
Must shine and filter through.
Not o new shoot, lad,
That feels the hard earth
Win e'er strike q root, lad,
But die in its birth.
Hearts want the plough, lad;
Every faults weed
To turn up and burn up
Ere We sow the seed;
Down to deep places
Score with Gods might.
Sow in prayer the graces,
And they shall thrive right.
Little Folks.
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An Explorers Expedient.

Not few people have wondered how
DR.. Junker, who has just returned to
civilization from Central Africa, succeed
ed in passing safely through the hostile
tribes in the lake region. The mystery is
explained at last, and DR.. Junkcr de-
serves credit for inventing an ingenious
method of reducing danger to minimum
in traversing unfriendly parts of Africa.
Before going far from Albert Nyanza
he ascertained that there was no hope of
his getting through the territory of the
Waganda and one or two other hostile
tribes without aid. If he was not MUIR
dered he would at least be detained as a
prisoner. Now and then an Arab trading
caravan was starting for the coast, but the
Arabs were afraid to appear to befriend
him as they could not afford to incur the
i'll will of the native kings.
In this emergency the novel idea oc-
CURED to DR.. Junker to sell himself as q
slave to one of the Arab traders. A bar
gain was struck, and he ostcnsibly became
the property of the trader. The contract
stipulated that the Arab, for the sum OF
1900 Austrian dollars, was to deliver the
traveller alive at Zanzibar, where upon
the presentation of the contract the money
would be paid to him by firm doing
business there. 1t happened that Dr.
Junker had with him an order written in
Arabic by this firm, authorizing him te
make any desirable arrangements with thu
Arab traders of Central Africa.
so DIR. Junker set out with his Araf
caravan, which took him straight into tht
lions den, or, in other words, into th'
chief town of M'wanga, the cruel despo
of Uganda. The chief trader represented
that Junker was not his friend or travel
ing companion, but was his slave, whom
he had bought of a negro tribe furthe
north. In his capacity as slave DR.
Junker passed muster in the court o
King M'wanga, and he was permitted t.
60 in peace with his owner.-Neo Yor
San.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
A Silent Prayer.

~ 0l1Chl EoyOA'
In the still all the music lies unheard;
In the rough marble beauty hides unseen;
To make the music and the beauty, needs
The masters touch, the sculptor's chisel keen.
Great Master, touch us with thy skilful
hand
Let not the music that Is in use diel
Great Sculptor, hew and polish us; nor let,
Hidden and lost, thy form within us liel
Spare not this strokel do with us as thou
wilt!
Let there bs nought unfinished, broken,
marred;
Complete thy purpose, that we may become
Thy perfect image, thou our God and Lord.
-lBonar.
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The Scouree of our Country.

The ScourSe OF our Country.
The terrible curse and evil of liquor
selling is so thoroughly imbedded in the
customs of society and the depraved ap-
petitcs of the people, that we find its
blasting, blighting, and dcbauching in
fuence controlling every department and
all sections of our country. 1t is a
mightier question than all other ques-
tions combined, debasing our manhood,
debauching our womanhood,s destroying
our children, surging backward and for
ward, going down to the lowest depths
of degradation. Rut you cannot settle
this question by any magic wand of gen.
tleness or persuasion. The issue will re-
quire all the moral force of the people
combined in an unbroken phalanx of de-
termined energy and enthusiastic zeal,
before We can conquer this formidable
enemy of our race. His intrenchments
are dug deep and numerous. The bar
riers to be overcome will challenge all
our moral heroism. The mountains of
difficulty will be found full of sharp jut-
ting crags that will tower over our heads
and seem to defy our most earnest en-
dcavors, but with God and the heroism
born of faith and desperate detcrmina-
ton, we will not be dismayed; our course
will be upward and onward. Prohibition
will be our beacon light, our star of hope
and expectation. The grand, final, and
! triumphant fiat of the people for Prohibi-
tion will cause shout of victory to be
echoed all over the land.-Demorests IS
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Apples for Stock.

As food for stock, apples are better
than roots, and are grown at less cost,
and if every farm had its ten acres of or
chard, and the farmer disposed of his
surplus for winter feeding, giving peck
per day to every one of the larger ami
mails, and to others in proportion, he
would be little troubled by diseases
among his stock.
The varieties of fruits to be planted
may be chosen to suit various circum-
stances. For the market the popular
winter kinds which can be kept safely
until the spring or summer, are clearly
the best, for this reason. But for the
stock and for domestic consumption the
earliest to the latest kinds may be wisely
planted. For COWS We would recon-
mend Sweet Bough as useful and wholly
unobjectionable kind, free from acid and
rich in sugar, and hence admissible as
food for cows that are yielding butter.
For swine we prefer the sweeter kinds.
Hence we would plant largely of Sweet
Bough and Early Harvest for summer
kinds; Twenty-ounce Pippin, Craven
stein, Fall Pippin, and Porter for autumn
kinds, and for winter, Tallman's Sweet,
further, Baldwin, Spy, Green
ing, Bellfower, Spitzenberger, and many
others that may be desired, but these
certainly. No time should be lost in de-
Gliding what and when to plant, in secur-
ing the trees, and in preparing for the
planting, and before the first of the next
month arrives we would have the trees
safely in the ground.-Neso York Times.
Drill Planting-Shallow Cultivation.
It is nineteen years, says Mr.. E. S. Car
mon, since we first began the advocacy,
more earnestly pressed with each succeed.
ing year, of planting corn in drills instead
of in hills; of sowing fertilizers on the
surface and merely narrowing them in;
of surface cultivation-that is, shallow
cultivation; and of keeping the land as
level as possible-that is, not hilling up.
There were then, as indeed there were
many years previously, advocates of one
or the other of these methods, but none
who favored all simultaneously. 1t is
gratifying to the Rural Neao Yorker that
there are nowadays among those who have
tried this method very few who would re.
turn to the old way, viz, ploughing un'
der the manure Or even fertilizer, planting
in hills, hilling up and deep cultivation,
until the corn is laid up.
Mr.. Cannon also says: All farmers who
have planted corn very early know that
after the plants sprout and have grown
two or three inches there usually comes 6
cold spell, and the plants stop growing
and often assume yellow, sickly appear
ance. Is this due, as is generally sup
posed, to the cold weather altogether, o.
to the fact that nitrifcation ceases2 L
inquiring farmers would sow little
nitrate Of soda upon small portion O.
the field when planting, thus supplying
nitrogen in an Immediately available
form, it might appear that the ''stand
still" was due rather to a deficiency o
nitrogenous food than to the coo
weather. York World.
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The amount of alcoholic liquor sent to
Africa from the United States Is, says
Demorest, one of the most abominable
outrages ever perpetratcd on an unof-
tending people, and this, too, by pro-
fessedly Christian people. Shame on
such unblushing villainy under the garb
of religion.
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Knew q Thing or Two.

"There," said Filtrip to his friend
Dilby, "thcre is man who has knowl-
edge of the fitness of things"
HWhy, yes" said Dilby, che has an ia
telligent face-what is he"
ooh, he's my tailor" answered Filtrip
eyeing his new suit complacently.-De~
troit FFesiP Press,
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One Style OF Christian.

Now Lydia Crane was not naturally
inclined to be querulous or selfish; she
had been duly converted in the progress
Of revival in London, and joined the
church during Parson Beach's lifetime
She read her Bible daily; said her pray
ers--1 use the phraise advisedly--and
was punctual attendant on all the
means of grace. She was the head and
front of the church sewing-society, and
secretary of the Foreign Mission Circle,
yet in the living of her life she had be-
come at the age of thirty-fve, fretful,
sclf-centered, opinionated and domineer-
ing; but perfectly certain that she was
an exemplary Christian. Charity, SYM
pathy, tenderness, do not grow in such a
solitude as hers; it is not good for man
or woman to be alone; and if to be a
Christian is to wear the image of Christ,
as the gospel seems to imply, there was
very little obvious likeness in Miss Lydia
to the Master whose name she wore.
Yet she was a thoroughly honest wo-
man, anxious above all things to be right;
ready to give to every "object" that i'm
PEELED the long handled contribution
boxes, with deacons at the other end,
through everyslip on every other Sunday,
though she hadnot even kind word for
the bcggar at her door; for begging i'm
piled "shiftlessness" and that " as unpar-
donable. = Sunday Afternoon.
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Count Tolstoi, the distinguished Rus
Russian author, under the title of ''The
Invention of Whisky" has sounded an
alarm against the devastation wrought
by alcohol In that country.
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Before The People.
TEXAS
OREGON
MICHIGAN
TENNESSEE
WEST VIRGINIA.
WEST VIRGINIA.

The above are the States in which pro-
hibitory amendments are now to be voted
on by the people. Since last week the
quartette has become q quintette by the
addition of Texas. "Our God is march
ing on."-Hoiee.
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TEMPERANCE.
Song OF the Glass.

Song OF the Glass.
With eyes inhamed and blear,
With features hollow and wan,
a drunkard sat in q ricketty chair
In his attic, all alone;
His person covered with rags,
His hair tangled mass,
In voice that told of souls despair,
He sang the song Of the Glass;
Drink, drink, drink,
Till the eye grows frenzied and wild;
Drink, drink, drink,
Though it murders wife and child;
Drink, drink, drink,
Ay, quaf the poison-bowl,
Though every drop it contains IS death,
And ruin to the soul.
Deep hid in the sparkling cup
A grinning demon glares,
A deceptive fend Of beautiful form
Concealing thousand snares;
Baware Of bis comely brow,
Beware of his noxious breath,
Tis the devils sacrament he offers now,
Twill lure you on to death
Death by the suicides hand,
Death by the murderer's steel,
A maniacs cell, hangman's cord,
A grave in the Potter's Field.
ALI this and more is bestowed,
Ay, more than tongue can tell
An hour Of bliss, an eternal abode,
In the sulphurous fumes Of hell;
o fends in human form!
Omen unworthy the name!
Iis not good you're dealing out,
But ruin, disgrace and shame
Shame for the gray-haired sire,
Shame for the aged wife,
Shame for the innocent, prattling babe
That follows him oil through life
o men with franchise crowned!
Awake from your sluggard's sleep;
Hear ye not that wailing sound?
Tis the nationsIwomen who weep
Weep for the thousands untold,
Who lie meath the ruin-stained grass,
While annually thousands renew their rank
And sing the Song of the Glass.
Drink drink, drink,
Till the eye grows frenIed and wild;
Drink, drink, drink,
Though it murders wife and child;
Drink, drink, drink,
Ay, quaR the poison-bowl;
Though every dropit contains is death,
And ruin to tho soul.
%. p. Tenant, in Temperance Advocate
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We must do quickly what there is no
hurry for, to be able to do slowly what
demands haste.